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Re:Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System by maroonblazer on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:18PM (#20947140)
Thank you, great explanation.

Do we have any sense of how large this object is? Or is that a silly question that only non-astronomers like me ask?

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Re:Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System by radeklew on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:03AM (#20948474)
According to this tweet[0] the object's coma[1], the cloud of ice and dust surrounding the object, makes it too difficult to measure.

[0]https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1171913641647493120 [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_(cometary)

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